Achun watched me quietly, seemingly waiting for my response.
A confident smile hung on his face.
Looking at that face, I could hardly believe he was a mechanical person. He was almost completely indistinguishable from a human, capable of displaying every kind of emotion. He possessed high intelligence, could learn and improve on his own, and could think like a human.
No, his way of thinking was far more terrifying than a human's. Humans had many limitations—limitations in knowledge and perspective.
Such limitations were nothing to them. Their accumulation of knowledge came far more easily than it did for humans. They could even classify and analyze all knowledge more systematically. When dealing with specific matters, they could make precise calculations, more comprehensively anticipating possible consequences and responses than we could.
I didn't believe everything he said.
At the very least, I wouldn't believe it completely.
I believed him when he said mechanical people had stronger bonds between themselves and could carry out any command unconditionally. But I simply didn't believe his claim that they would never harm this world, would even help us resist foreign enemies, and would leave on their own afterward.
His purpose in saying all this was the Heart Core.
But I couldn't hand the Heart Core over to them.
Besides, that thing had originally belonged to me. Although I had no memory of that part, I believed Guiguzi wouldn't lie to me. And the Heart Core had entered my body on its own, probably for that very reason.
There was no need to say more about how important the Heart Core was. Now that they wanted to take it away, how could I possibly agree so easily?
"Mr. Jiang, you seem somewhat hesitant. But have you considered this? Since we were able to invite your woman